Written by: Jacquie Carroll, ED.D., Campus Engagement and Education Consultant, American Student Assistance® (ASA) April was Financial Literacy Month, and this year it seems that the events in the last decade have generated not only a national discussion, but also more educational community discussions about...
By Joe Jovell, Senior Marketing Associate, Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc. While no sanctions or benefits are associated with the draft cohort default rates (CDRs) you receive from the U.S. Department of Education (ED), there could be serious ramifications for your school if you...
By Linda Peckham, Senior Training Strategist, Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation With the proliferation of headlines on the fiscal cliff, aid cuts, and sequestration in the news, aid leaders are often asked to predict how funding cuts will impact the campus community. The request for...
Questions about specific aid programs, regulations, and procedures? Student aid administrators can go to http://www.ifap.ed.gov/ifap/ for links to aid-related Federal Registers, the Federal Student Aid Handbook, Dear Colleague letters, etc. Even with all this information, we sometimes we are still left with questions about how...
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by Linda Peckham, Senior Training Strategist, Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and Affiliates Higher education at large has responded to the social media boon by strategically utilizing Facebook and other platforms to improve admissions, yield, community relations and even alumni giving. Why then, has the financial...
Jacquie Carroll, ED.D. Campus Engagement and Education Consultant American Student Assistance Most of us have seen photos of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators wearing signs declaring their student debt. They know how much they owe, but they don’t know what do about it. And they’re not alone. A...
By Stacey Musulin, University of Connecticut This July, the CAPFAA community was shocked and saddened by the announcement that Jim Falconer, Director of Financial Aid at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts had passed away. To honor him, the Communications Committee will collect memories of Jim...
The 2013 EASFAA Conference will be held from May 7-10th, 2013 in Boston. For more information, click here: http://www.easfaa.org/docs/toc_conference.html...
The 2013 EASFAA Conference will take place in Boston, Massachusetts May 7th-10th! Now is the time to submit your session proposals at http://www.easfaa.org/ESM/esmConf13_Proposal.html. Please note that you will be required to login to submit a session. The EASFAA Conference prides itself in offering high quality sessions...